Babcia

Babcia is an ongoing papercut comic about my Grandmother and my family's history in Poland.
Babcia was serialized in Broken Pencil Magazine from 2013-2024.

Big thanks to the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts,
and Koyama Provides for their support of this project.

Papercut comic strip introducing the story of the author's grandmother

Papercut comic strip in which the author wonders about their grandmother's youth and desires for life

Papercut comic strip about the experiential knowledge held by the author's undereducated grandparents and how much of this knowledge has been lost through the process of urban migration

Papercut comic strip depicting a young woman in traditional Polish folk costume, with labels indicating conflicting aspects of the immigrant experience pointing to different areas of her body

Papercut comic strip in which the author reflects on cycles of death and birth and their hopes to express love more to those around them

Papercut comic strip about the author's family being split during their childhood due to illness and immigration

Papercut comic strip about the author's grandmother caring for them and hoping to make grandma proud

Papercut comic strip about the author immigrating to Canada while their grandmother stayed in Poland

Papercut comic strip about the author's lack of awareness of the impact of immigration when they were a child

Risograh publication

2018

20 pages of the comic collected into a 3-colour risograph anthology, available to purchase from my shop.

For more of my papercut comics, check out Genesis, Inheritance, and After

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